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FLYers are really FLYing now.Here's to another week!

639 replies

tortoise · 28/08/2006 09:23

Welcome to a new week FLYers.
Good luck and keep up the hard work.

flylady website.

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damewashalot · 28/08/2006 14:21

Thanks tortoise, Well I've hoovered and fed the kids and bfed the baby, having my lunch now then will go back to it, honest.

deegward · 28/08/2006 14:27

Did my 10 mins hoovering, and dusting, then did 15 mins in lounge de cluttering, not much to get rid of.

Love the shiney sink tho', on day 4 now, haven't put nots in kitchen, but have written down bed routine

Hope this is going to work, quite sad as enjoying it!

ocd · 28/08/2006 14:28

can you lot make me do it wihtout me haveing to get the emailes?

damewashalot · 28/08/2006 14:41

You could just look on here at what everyone is doing (or not in my case) and we could nag you. Although it would be sad to miss out on all the cheesey US stuff

ocd · 28/08/2006 14:42

i signed up once before
drove me nuts

damewashalot · 28/08/2006 14:43

Think it will start to bug me soon but I'm enjoying my shiny sink

Cappuccino · 28/08/2006 15:24

oh ocd it's not the same without the God Breezes

then it would just be some sad housework system

but - sigh - if that's the way you want to play it

you're meant to be doing your home blessing today

JessaJam · 28/08/2006 15:41

ocd the emails are driving me slightly lopy too...I will do an hours worth of cleaning in 10 minute or so bursts, I will not bless my house!
Seems like, as with most 'routines' best plan is to do a bit of pick and mix to suit yourself .

My sink still shines and i have my shoes done up...!

JessaJam · 28/08/2006 15:45

That's loopy obviously!

Cappuccino · 28/08/2006 15:56

jessajam I agree; for a start I don't buy enough magazines to spend ten minutes a week tidying them up, nor do I think my doors need that much weekly attention

but I do find a lot of it good

she obviously lives somewhere far more predictable than the north of england however; there's no way I could confidently lay my clothes out the night before; I'd always be completely wrongly dressed for the weather!

JessaJam · 28/08/2006 15:59

Yes, I think I could manage to choose trousers for the next day, but tops and stuff depend totally on what Sky news weather says that morning and the colour of the sky outside!

Cappuccino · 28/08/2006 16:08

and you're right about the green sink cleaning; I just ignored her and grabbed my ecover and microfibre cloth

I have spent the last two weeks forcibly stopping myself from emailing flylady herself and asking her how much of her 27 items in the 27-fling-boogie she puts in the recycle bin... honestly couldn't find 27 non-recyclable items to trash so am a bit suspicious of her credentials in this area

but to mail her would be sad, right?

JessaJam · 28/08/2006 16:12

REALLY wanted to email her when I read that I had to tell dh what i was doing to "insure" he didn't make my sink dirty...."insure"? wtf?

So, the 27-fling doodad will now evolve into a 10-fling and 17-recycle boogie!?

tortoise · 28/08/2006 16:13

Hellooooo Im back from town and park now.
Im going to have a rest then I really must put the washing away or it will end up being taken off my bed tonight and dumped in my clear space and i don't want that!

ocd-The emails are on flylady's web site ever day if you want to read them but not have masses sent.
TBH I just seem to be deleting them without reading them.

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Cappuccino · 28/08/2006 16:17

ha Jess, these Americans just can't spell

ocd · 28/08/2006 16:42

whats hous e blesseing adn boogie hting?

Cappuccino · 28/08/2006 16:52

well if you won't get the emails [sigh]

here you go, your one hour house blessing starting from now

you do this every week (well I don't do the magazines and the door business, personally)

and your 27-fling boogie is when you wander round the house, three times a week, throwing away needless stuff till you have 27 things to chuck out

I'm a bit unsure about this one meself

you can follow the babysteps on her website, without having to receive the mad testimonials from women in Idaho

Flamesparrow · 28/08/2006 17:26

Been to Tesco. DD and DS now both have a little toy box for the lounge, so I can store a few of their toys (the rest is upstairs in DD's pit).

I DID do the lounge, but you wouldn't think it now... would be more noticable after the toys go tonight I think.

Been sorting oodles of baby clothes - people are gonna hate me when I start turning up on their doorsteps with sackfuls of stuff for them to store instead

Feeling very productive and cooking a roast for the first time in months!!!!!

Woohooo FLYlady.

coggy · 28/08/2006 17:36

I've only been away a few days and I'm hearing things like....."Just a cleaning routine" and "Pick and choose"........[horror emoticon]

Girls, girls, girls......where is your FLYlady spirit???!!!!

She MUST be obeyed!!!!!!

(Haven't bothered trying to catch up with last week's thread as it's too darn long!!!
Did notice a serious missing QT presence though??!!)

RubyRioja · 28/08/2006 17:37

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coggy · 28/08/2006 17:39

Hey RR....that was quite scary!!!

Enhanced by the CAPs!!!!!!

shazronnieWEARINGSHOES · 28/08/2006 17:49

HAS NOBODY MISSED ME?
I HAVEN'T LOGGED ON FOR 2 DAYS AND NO ONE NOTICED!

(Sorry for shouting)

shazronnieWEARINGSHOES · 28/08/2006 17:51

I went to my mum's for the weekend and I came back to A DIRTY SINK.

(Well, not that dirty, but watermarked [anger] )

No flying today; will have to bless house tomorrow and start on the lounge.

Jasnem · 28/08/2006 17:51

love the shoesSR

tortoise · 28/08/2006 17:52

Ive put 90% of the clothes away now.If only i could do it everytime a dry a load it wouldn't take so long!
Hi coggy.We obey the FLYlady,We obey the FLYlady!

Ive been thinking about Q and hoping its just been a busy week with mil and funeral arrangements.I will email her and see if she gets back to us!

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